Definitions for chiefs

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chiefs chief

Spelling: [cheef]

IPA: /tʃif/

Chiefs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in chiefs (cefhis).

Definitions for chiefs

noun

1. the head or leader of an organized body of people; the person highest in authority:
2. the head or ruler of a tribe or clan:
3. (initial capital letter) U.S. Army. a title of some advisers to the Chief of Staff, who do not, in most instances, command the troop units of their arms or services:
4. Informal. boss or leader:
5. Heraldry. the upper area of an escutcheon. an ordinary occupying this area.

Idioms

1. in chief, in the chief position; highest in rank (used in combination): Heraldry. in the upper part of an escutcheon.

adverb

1. Archaic. chiefly; principally.

adjective

1. highest in rank or authority:
2. most important; principal:

Origin of chiefs

1250-1300; Middle English Anglo-French chief, chef, Old French chef Vulgar Latin *capum, re-formation of Latin caput head

Examples for chiefs

Throughout all the stories of loss and pain with the chief, there was barely a trace of emotion.

It is not the name of the action, but the result of the action, which is the chief concern.

Take the chief metric of the war in Vietnam—body counts, which ultimately did not answer whether the strategy was working.

"I jest can't keep him off the streets nights," was his chief complaint.

That act forever sealed his feeling for the chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.

“You can imagine the sound of that gun on a Bronx street,” chief of Detectives Robert Boyce says.

She cared little for poverty or riches, as long as she had regained her chief treasures.

He also is the chief of the police force and catches the thieves.

chief Justice John Marshall administered the oath of office.

“Having been a legislator and a mayor, I particularly enjoy being a chief executive,” he said.